Ubuntu

Network card driver?

Asked by co-cheese

Ok, heres the deal.
I installed linux on my old computer for funsies. First linux system, running ubuntu atm.
Its trying to connect to the wireless router at my house using the on board intel network card (that only has a wired ethernet port).

The network card in the case is a netgear WG311v2 .... which is old
Ive downloaded the driver, which wont instal (windows .exe files i think?)
Anyway, ive figured that the deal is either i need to install drivers, (the card is not recieving power from the mobo) or i need to change which card is the default for connecting to the internet.

I took a quick look at some other people problems, ive typed in lspci into the terminal, and it specifically says ethernet controller : Intel corporation blah blah blah, where im expecting it to say netgear blah blah blah.

Ive looked at the help section ubuntu comes equipped with

Tells me to install ndisgtk through synaptic package manager.
open it, and install the driver using the .inf file
Unfortunately, there is no such package.

Im stumped. Run out of resources. Please help.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo aptitude install ndisgtk

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then to install the .inf obviously you must have the .inf file, take it from the install CD or search it using the NET.

Hoep this helps

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s_raiguel (raiguel) said : 		#2

So let me get this straight - you've got both a wired and a wireless NIC on your machine, and Ubuntu is seeing only the wired NIC (which is currently not connected) and ignores the wireless Netgear NIC? Is it that this computer has an Intel wired NIC built onto the motherboard, as many do? If that's the case, you probably want to go into the setup BIOS of this machine and disable it. If it's simply on an option card, just pull it out of the bus. Maybe then, Ubuntu will find the wireless interface and set it up automatically.

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